Word: exists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after taking office she promoted and front-paged a quarrel with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, managing to involve also Ruth Hanna McCormick and Idaho's Senator Borah. She published an interview with the Haitian Minister purporting to show that a fort, once captured by General Smedley Butler, did not exist. General Butler demanded redress. Mrs. Patterson cleverly got her competing papers to publish a denial, without humiliating herself. She wangled an interview with Al Capone by walking unannounced into his Miami Beach home. She slept in a Salvation Army lodging house and wrote about it in her paper...
...Experience. Dr. Barnes says he has felt moments of mystical exaltation. He believes religion should include emotion, though in moderation: "The novel entitled Elmer Gantry was written with the exaggeration born of desire to expose an evil; but I fear that in the religious life of America there does exist a misuse, such as its author describes, of emotion which ought to be held sacred." Dr. Barnes deplores the loss of enthusiasm for conversion in British churches. Unless they recapture it they will die. "Churches die of respectability just as they become a nuisance through superstition. Conversion takes...
...white man, since Metternich developed the principle of wholesale intervention, has held that principle his exclusive preserve, and is inclined to view with anger any Japanese poaching. Thus the League Council continued, despite the Lytton report, to speak of the national Chinese government as if such a government did exist, without regard to the fact that Chiang Kiashek was not on substantially better terms with Canton and the Communist South than he was with the berserk Manchurian freebooters of the North. Under these conditions, the withdrawal of Japanese troops at the time of the League order would have meant...
...most unusual items in the Tower collection is the "Hudson's Bay Proclamation", issued in 1688 by King James the Second, restricting trade in the Hudson Bay area to members of the Hudson's Bay Company. Only three other copies are known to exist. These are at the British Museum, the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the Public Record Office in London, and the Harvard copy is the only known copy in America. The proclamation is in the form of a large folio broadside, printed in black letter...
...fight to the finish against both "brown Bolshevism and red Bolshevism. ... A curious and impressive result of the Hitlerite propaganda here has been to awaken a distinctive Austrian national spirit. . . . Every time the word 'Austria' is mentioned it now evokes a cheer. . . . We would like Austria to exist as an object lesson to the world of German culture . . . that is not a menace but an inspiration...